Montrealer John Heward is not a Torontonian living with culture but the musicians performing with him at MOCCA tomorrow night are. Heward’s impressive retrospective, A Trajectory / A Collection, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art November 14 and augmenting his paintings and photographs is a small bank of CD players and headphones sporting a selection of recordings spanning the artist’s career.
Heward, who graciously showed me around the exhibit prior to the opening, stressed that he’s a musician rather than a sound artist. “I think musicians concentrate more on harmony, melody, rhythm, whereas, many sound artists, while they may be very trained musically, tend to be looking for a spatial context that you might not be looking for in music. My music is based largely on ’60s free jazz. Mingus is a big influence. I love bebop, I love all jazz really. I’m a drummer.”
Heward will be drumming in the gallery space tomorrow evening with bassist David Lee, violin/viola player David Prentice, trombonist Scott Thomson, baritone saxophonist David Mott and soprano sax player Christopher Cauley. Expect the unexpected.
WHERE/WHEN: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (952 Queen Street West), Thursday, December 3, 7 – 9 pm.
Photos by Christopher Jones
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